The MPEG-2 Systems Patent Portfolio License provides access to essential patent rights for the MPEG-2 Systems coding standard used in products, such as set-top boxes, cameras and mobile television and audio receivers, without licensed MPEG-2 video encoders or decoders. The MPEG-2 Systems Standard defines how to format the various components of multiplexer programs and combine them into a single program or transport stream.

Under a collaboration with MPEG LA, LLC, ULDAGE Inc. offers MPEG LA’s MPEG-2 Systems Patent Portfolio License to companies based in Japan that sell mobile TV handsets for Japan’s One-Seg mobile terrestrial broadcasting service. One-Seg mobile TV handsets use both the MPEG-2 Systems Standard covered by the MPEG-2 Systems License and the ARIB One-Seg digital broadcast standard covered by ULDAGE’s ARIB License. Therefore, One-Seg handset manufacturers need coverage under patents essential to both standards and benefit from both licenses.

For more information on the MPEG-2 Systems Patent Portfolio License, please go to MPEG LA’s website: http://www.mpegla.com. For more information on the MPEG LA, LLC and ULDAGE Inc. collaboration, please see here.

What are the licensed products for the MPEG-2 Systems Patent Portfolio License?

The MPEG-2 Systems Patent Portfolio License provides coverage for One-Seg mobile TV handsets and other MPEG-2 Systems Devices (as defined in Section 1.9 of the MPEG-2 Systems Patent Portfolio License) such as set-top boxes, cameras and mobile television and audio receivers without licensed MPEG-2 Video decoders or encoders.

If Company A sells a product that is capable of receiving “One-Seg” broadcasting and has been already licensed the ARIB Essential Patent License, is it further required to obtain the MPEG-2 Systems Patent Portfolio License?

Yes. Company A would benefit from a license under the MPEG-2 Systems Patent Portfolio License because One-Seg mobile TV handsets use the MPEG-2 Systems Standard covered by the MPEG-2 Systems License, but the ARIB Essential Patent License alone does not provide such coverage.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact MPEG LA, LLC or ULDAGE Inc.
Please contact ULDAGE Inc. at information@uldage.com.